Katherine M. Franke Reprinted with the author’s permission from Informed Comment of 01/15/2025 Statement from Katherine Franke, January 10, 2025 For the last year and a half, as students at Columbia University and across the globe have protested against the Israeli government’s genocidal assault on Palestinians after the October 2023 attacks, a response that…
[Editor’s comment: Gee, once again morality and practicality coincide. When will Democrats learn that they will continue to lose until they return to representing the working class? In the meantime, we can thank the Democrats for Trump. Don] “Twenty-nine percent of non-voters who supported Biden in 2020 said U.S. support for the genocide was…
[Editor’s Note: Consider the following shocking fact as you read Normon Solomon’s article below: “We received some cases where the parents wrote the names of their children on the legs and abdomen,” Dr. Abdul Rahman Al Masri, the head of the emergency department Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, told CNN. He said parents were worried that…
This is all part of the politics of grief (keeping us from feeling it). The truth is that what Israel is doing in Gaza isn’t war at all, it’s extermmination, genocide. ‘Outrageous’: NYT Rejects Paid Ad From Quakers That Calls Israeli Attack on Gaza ‘Genocide’ “Palestinians and allies have been silenced and marginalized in…
Because of a (free) subscription I have to political scientist Professor Glenn Diesen’s substack, I received this email from him today. It may interest you. Conversation with Prof. Glenn Diesen on Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs Glenn Diesen Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political scientist Glenn Diesen as they discuss Professor Diesen’s new book,…
